PodcastOne Acquires Exclusive Multiyear Rights to Rabia & Ellyn Solve the Case

PodcastOne (NASDAQ: PODC), a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne (NASDAQ: LVO), which owns 80% of the PODC common stock, announced today that it has acquired the exclusive multiyear sales and distribution rights to New York Times best-selling author and attorney Rabia Chaudry’s and actress Ellyn Marsh’s true crime genre podcast, Rabia & Ellyn Solve the Case. Chaudry, who initiated the worldwide sensation podcast Serial and served as an Executive Producer on the HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed and Marsh, who starred on Broadway in Enron and Kinky Boots, host the weekly show.

Everyone has a true crime story they’re obsessed with solving. Join true-crime experts, Chaudry and Marsh, along with special celebrity guests as they break down their favorite true crime cases. With Chaudry’s legal expertise and Marsh’s comedic wit, you’ll be seeing these cases in a whole new light. Launched in 2022, Rabia & Ellyn Solve the Case has delivered top performing episodes on everything from boy band empresario Lou Pearlman to the devastating murder of Matthew Shepard.

"We are excited to join the PodcastOne family of shows and look forward to continuing to grow Rabia and Ellyn Solve The Case with this new partnership! Ellyn and I love working together, we love true crime, we love our incredibly engaged audience. This show is a labor of love and fun, a marriage of entertainment and education, a coming together of sleuthy nerds that love getting into the weeds of a case, and we are confident that we are bringing something unique and special to PodcastOne’s network,” said Chaudry.

“The addition of Rabia & Ellyn takes our roster of top-notch true crime programming to another level. We are excited to host, market and monetize the existing episodes and launch new seasons of this podcast in 2024. Many of our super fans that listen to our true crime network haven’t yet been exposed to this program and we are thrilled to be able to introduce it to them,” said Kit Gray, President and Co-Founder of PodcastOne.

PodcastOne’s full roster of top ranked podcasts includes programming across top genres such as news, comedy, true crime and society and culture, including shows such as Bad Bad Thing, True Crime All The Time Unsolved, The Prosecutors, Court Junkie, Cold Case Files, I Survived, Baby Mamas No Drama, The Adam Carolla Show, and The Schaub Show. PodcastOne shows are available through PodcastOne, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon and wherever podcasts are heard.